You are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
TIMOTHY KELLERYou are more sinful than you could dare imagine and you are more loved and accepted than you could ever dare hope.
More Timothy Keller Quotes
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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You dont fall into love. You commit to it. Love is saying I will be there no matter what.
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The reason the stone was rolled away on Jesus’s tomb was not so that Jesus could get out, but so that we could get in.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.
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God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.
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When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.
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The only person who dares wake up a king at 3:00 AM for a glass of water is a child. We have that kind of access
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God became someone we could hurt. Why? To get us back… No other religion-whethe r secularism, Greco-Roman paganism, Eastern religion, Judaism, or Islam-believes God became breakable or suffered or had a body.
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The key question in order to change you is not ‘What would Jesus do?’ but “What has Jesus done for you?”
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Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
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The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.
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